Vol ume 47 No.

2 September 1, 2013

Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH

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Only socialism can save us from the present economic-political-social crises

Comrade Provash Ghosh at 5th August meeting in Kolkata
(This is the text of the speech of Comrade Prova sh Ghosh, Gene ral Secretary, SU CI(C), on the occasion of 37th Comrade Shibdas Gh osh Memorial Day meeting in Kolkata on 5th Aug ust. Resp onsibility of translation error or inadequate expression, if any, lies with the Editorial Board of Proletarian Era.) Comrade President, Comrades and with his love and affe ction, this day Friends, is of profound pain. We all gather On this day, we are holding on this day to recollect his mee tings in 22 states of India, to revolutionary tea chings which remember Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, provide beacon to our journey. the finest representative of the Observance of this Day is no ritual revolutionary trend of the to us. Even when we shall not be Renaissance and free dom living, hundreds of thousands of movement of the country, the exploited people, both in the country and abroad, seeking emancipation, shall remember this great lea der on this Day with all reverence and due solemnity. At the outset, I would like to refer to one of his historic sayings. Forty five years back he observed that during the eighteen and nineteenth ce nturies when the bourgeoisie was Comrade Provash Ghosh addressing organizing bourgeois worthy continuator of great Marx- democratic revolution against Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao Zedong, feudalism; gave clarion call of one of the foremost Marxist equality-liberty-frate rnity; es taphilosophers and thinkers of the era, blished parliamentary democracy; a front-ranking leader of the world raised slogans of individual liberty, communist movement and the liberty of women that was the era of guide and teacher of the proletarian rising capitalism, of accomplishing revolutionary movement of India. national democratic revolution. The For those of us who got the rare bourgeoisie as a class was then opportunity to come in close contact progressive. It had a revolutionary with this great leader, to be rea red role in social progress. Elaborating further, he showed that after the emergence of monopoly ca pital in place of small and medium industrial capital, after birth of finance capital and advent of imperialism, the same very bourgeoisie threw off the flags of liberty and democracy into the mire, gagged the voice of individual freedom and womens liberty.It is at this stage that the bourgeoisie as a class and capitalism as a system assumed reactionary chara cter.The bourgeois parliamentary democracy that once swore democracy by the people, for the people and of the people turned at this stage of imperialism albeit in the name of people, into a democracy by the capitalist, for the capitalist, and of the capitalist. As a result, all the propeople characteristics that bourgeois democrac y once possessed were thrown into the dust. You have had a glimpse of this decadence of bourgeois parliamentary democracy
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SUCI(C) strongly condemns heinous attempt of US imperialists to attack sovereign Syria on fraudulent pretext and calls upon peace-loving world people to thwart this sinister move
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C) has issued the following statement on 29 August, 2013 : We strongly condemn the most despotic and brigandish move on the part of the notorious US imperialists and its other imperialist allies to attack Syria on the pretext of its alleged use of chemical weapons against its opponents the same pretext they fraudulently advance d before launching fierce military aggression on Iraq and bring about immense devastation and destruction to that country also like Iraq. We call upon all anti-war peace-loving people of the world to rise in arms against this imminent heinous attempt of the US imperialists to overrun another sovereign country and thwart their sinister ploy to escalate armed hostilities in West Asia and push the mankind once again towa rds holocaust of war. We strongly believe that the people of Syria must be left complete ly free to decide their future as they like and appea l to all patriotic people of the world to stand by the people of Syria on this just right of theirs, frustrate the ulterior design of the US imperialists to overrun Syria and establish their hegemony over the world.

Huge students rally at Bhopal on All India Students Conference of the AIDSO

8th All India Students Conference organized by the AIDSO was held from 26 to 29 August, 2013 in Bhopal, MP, with students participating from different states of India. Above is a part of the rally on the opening day. Detailed coverage of the programme will be published later.

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Comrade Provash Ghoshs speech

There is no such thing as free and fair election in parliamentary democracy today
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in the last panchayat elec tions in West Bengal. Bourgeois democracy has all along raised the slogan of free and fair elections. What a grisly form of that free and fair you have witnesse d in the said election! From ghas tly murder, arson, loot and plunder, outraging modesty of women, not hesitating to kill even the father for the crime of his son being a candidate, forcible prevention of candidates from drawing their nomination papers, res isting their submission of the nomination papers , preventing people from casting votes, booth capturing everything has been seen in this democratic elections that has made you shudder in fright. Not that this was something new in this state in the Trinamul Congress (TMC)regime. This very path of terror and intimidation was adopted and virtually systematized by the CPI (M) during thirty-four years of its misrule. This time TMC has followed the same path.

Political murders began in 1969 with CPI (M) as architect

Let me go a little back in history. Pres ent generations are not aware of many incidents of that time. P olitical murders, organized politica l killing were not experienced in this state of West Bengal in the 1950s and 60s, not even during the elections. All these began in 1969-70, towards the end of the second United Front government. There was then a united front of 14 left and democratic parties including our party in West Bengal. A government of that United Front, after res ounding victory in the elections, was then continuing. At that point of time, the CP I (M) leaders gave the call of class-based front signifying that the class struggleunder their leadership had advanced so much as to have exhausted the very need of any united front or combination of different parties in this state.In other words, the objective condition was ripe for the working class to build its own clas s-front.And as a means to build up this class-based front, the CPI (M) started class struggle against our Party and other partners of the United Front. And this class struggle of theirs meant murdering our Party activists as well as workers of other UF constituents and the Naxalites who had broken away from CP I(M). It was from then on that politica l murders began to take place in this state. In 1972, Congress captured power through

mas sive terrorization and rigging in election. Siddhartha Shankar Ray took over as the chief minister. He also followed the same path of killing our party workers as well as cadres of other left parties including the Naxalites. Then the CPI (M) started saying political opponents are terrorized, democracy is subverted etc. etc.. In 1977 assembly election, the CPI(M) came to power with the promise of res toration of democracy as against Indira Gandhis Emergency and terror rule.And you all have been witness to how the CPI (M) restored democracy and fought terror over the 34 years of its rule! They killed 152 leaders and workers of our party, false ly implica ted Comrade Probodh P urkait and 49 other leading activists and leaders of our party in false cases and got them sentenced to life-term. The CPI (M) resorted to massive terror, threat and intimidation, rigging in the elections, forcibly prevented others from filing nomination, orchestrated mas s killing of political opponents and indulged in all kinds of crimes, foul dee ds and vicious acts. The TMC rode to power by raising slogan against this reign of terror and malpractices of the CPI (M) and promising to restore democra cy. Now, you are having a taste of how the TMC is restoring democracy. In fact, the TMC has begun from where the CPI (M) ended. In avid pursuance of the path shown by the CPI (M), the TMC has also brought the police and administration under party control,has been slapping punishment transfer on those officials who want to remain relatively neutral, has clamped party dominance on the governing bodies of the schools and colleges, has been forcibly capturing students unions making a mockery of election, has been unlea shing all-out terror by using the sa me very antisocials propped up and stee red hitherto by the CPI (M), has been allowing culpable murder, snatching, kidnapping, rape, embezzlement of public fund and rampant corruption to go unabated. Why is it happening in politics? Surely all these parties and their lea ders are responsible for this. There is no doubt about it. But, there are many honest people who have not bartered their conscience yet. This section of sensible people is gravely concerned at this sordid state of affairs and aberrations. They wonder why is all this occurring? How could there be an end to it? How is it that those

whom they vote with lot of expectation change colour as soon as being saddled in power? The more power is alternating between this or that party, more aggravated is the crisis. Why? The answer can be provided only by MarxismLeninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought.

There is no more democracy, freedom, fair el ections in parliamentary democracy

Basing on science, Marxism has shown that our society is classdivided betwe en labour and capital, between the exploiting and the exploited. It is so not on ones swe et will, but following the inexorable law of history. In this class divided society, politics is of two kinds. One subserves the interest of capitalism the politics of protecting capitalism the politics that conduces to unbridled exploitation and plunder by the capitalist rulers . Another is the revolutionary politics of the working class based on MarxismLeninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought. No matter what is the hue or the colour of the flag, the name printed on the festoon or the slogans raised all the parties be that Congress, BJP, TMC, or CPI (M) are pursuing the politics of the oppressive bourgeoisie. As a petty bourgeois outfit, CPI (M) is also practising the sa me bourgeois politics. Differe nt hues notwithstanding, the political object, work method, conduct, culture all are the same. One can hardly make any distinction among them except the colour of the flags. All thes e parties have the characteristics of bourgeois outfits in this age of reactionary capitalism. The motive of the bourgeoisie class, that is, the owners is to reap maximum profit in any way, be that through retre nchment, slashing wages, pushing the people to die in starvation, going without any medical care. It does not matter if the suffering mas ses are doomed to total ruination in this mad pursuit of profit maximization. In any way capitalists must earn profit. It is this profit-based individual ownership system, this very exploitative capitalist economic system on which stands the bourgeois political system as the superstructure of capitalist ec onomic base. As the capitalists are desperate in anyhow earning maximum profit, so the parties subserving bourgeois class interest are also desperate in anyhow grabbing power. Issues of democrac y, democratic values,

norms, conduction of free and fair peaceful elec tions have no value to them. Humanity, human feelings, human life, ethics , morality are of no considera tion to them. The only motto, whole and sole objective is to anyhow capture power in panchayat, corporation, municipality, assembly or parliament. Power they must have at any cost. For that, committing murder, spreading terror, orchestrating bloodbath, engineering riot, precipitating chaos and disorder are not at all of any concern to them.

Bourgeoi s parliamentary democracy stoked fire of two world wars, perpetrating genoci des and rampage round the world today
At the sight of all this, if one simply heaves a sigh of grief or sinks into frustration, things wont change. So long as capitalism exists, such problems will not only persist but will go on increasing. Spilling of blood would continue in the frenzied bid to ca pture power. Look at the capitalist countries in the west. The concept of parliamentary democrac y grew in those countries. How miserable now is the condition of democracy in traditional bourgeois democratic countries like England, France, Germany and above all America which once organized democratic revolution, espoused individual freedom, upheld the lofty principles of equality, liberty and fraternity and affirmed democratic rights. On his 80th birth anniversary, the great poet Rabindranath with deep pain had said :in my early life, in boyhood, we were moved having looked at Europe. I expected a lot from the European civilization. Today, at the fag end of life, I find the same Europe, as an imperialist warmonger, as a serious danger to human civilization. Many years have passed since Rabindranath. However, well before Rabindranath, great Lenin in 1916 had exposed the imperialist character of Europe and America. The bourgeois rulers of the same very countries who once uttered the messa ge of liberty had themselves later occupied and plundered the countries of AsiaAfrica-Latin America and with the flag of parliamentary democracy in their hands ruthlessly destroyed the freedom movements of these countries. It is the ruling bourgeoisie of European countries and USA who had stoked the fire of both first and second world wa rs. It
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Obsolete corrupt capitalism is breeding all crises

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is these votaries of parliamentary democrac y who gave birth to fas cism. One of the chieftains of this parliamentary democracy, the USA, had dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima-Nagasaki of Ja pan killing hundreds of thousands of people and crippling many more for life. In order to crush the liberation struggle of Vietnam, the US imperialist rulers razed that country into rubbles. Just a few years back, the US rulers imputing an utterly false allegation that Iraq possessed we apons of mass destruction, brutally and indiscriminately killed hundreds of thousands of common innocent Iraqi people. Today, Iraq is virtually a mas s of ruins. Every day 10 to 50 people are murdered in Iraq. This is the character of bourgeois parliamentary democracy today. In these sentinels of parliamentary democracies, free and fair elections have been reduced to free and peaceful choice of the incumbents to power by the corporate sector. Money power, muscle power, media power and bureaucracy determine the res ult of the elections. Multi-party democrac y is only in words. In rea lity, what exists is two-party democracy, the clever ploy to grab power alternately by two parties.

Tragic conditions of individual liberty in parliamentary democracy today

I shall now refer an incident to you. Recently an article has been published in The Guardian of England. Bradley Manning, an employee of the intelligence department, has been court martialed for leaking secret documents. He would be sentenced to 36 years of imprisonment. What was his crime? While in service in the military intelligence department, he wa tched a video footage. During his deposition in the court, Manning said, The video footage I saw, showed the US soldiers barbarously killing several innocent people in Iraq. After the killing, the soldiers were rejoicing in bestial ecstasy. They were exulted at this savage killing. He said : This is highly menacing to me. They are dehumanized. They have no human sense. They have no human qualities. They were calling the murdered victims bastards, dead bastards, and congratulating each other for having perpetrated such a ghastly ac t. This is the real face of the US imperialist army. The imperialist state has dehumanized them; otherwise, such cruel wars and atrocities cannot be carried out

by them. Manning also said, I have divulged this document with the belief that if it comes to light, the US people will wa ke up. They will debate on our foreign policy and about how that policy is applied in Iraq and Afghanistan. People will become conscious. Storm of criticism will sweep across. For committing this crime, he will be sentenced to 36 years of imprisonment. And through whom he has leaked this news to the world is Julien Assange of Wikileaks, an Australian citizen, a we ll-known name to many now. Assa nge has made public many a secret document of crimes and gangsterism of the US rulers before the world. He is in hiding, cannot come out in the open now. If he is caught, the US rulers will kill him. He has been forced to live incognito at the embassy of Ecuador in London. Let me tell you another incident which might be known to many of you. Another US citizen named Edward Snowden has revea led that the US National Security Agency has installed 700 servers in 150 places of the world, through which it could know who is speaking to whom over phone and through internet, e-mail etc. This is the bared fac e of the se lf-proclaimed champions of individual liberty in the bourgeois world. Snowden has exposed this secre t spying over individual`s privacy. The US rulers have got a court warrant issued against Snowden. He is in asylum in a Russian airport. Bradley Manning, Edwa rd Snowden of America and Julien Assange of Australia have all exposed the grim, aggressive and felonious faces of the US rulers and uncovered their anti-democratic activities. So, this trio, in the judgement of these rulers, has no right to live free ly. One is se ntenced to imprisonment; other two are obliged to live in exile as virtual -prisoners. The reporter of The Guardian has commented, those who unraveled the truth have no freedom, but those who had planned wars, committed horrific war crimes, and such unlaw ful espionage are walking free. This is what bourgeois freedom is! This is the condition of the present-day America, the land of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson, the great protagonists of democracy. This is how the rulers of democratic USA today are trampling individual liberty under foot. It is this parliamentary democrac y that we have in our country has. All the vote-based parties of our country are carrying

the banner of this parliamentary democracy, of this bourgeois democrac y. Obviously, in such a democrac y, murders and killings, terror, threat, intimidation will continue, rather would increase more and more. De mocratic elections of the land would be a saga of more and more bloodshed, rigging, booth capturing and such other manipulations. Is there no way of getting rid of all this? There is, and that lies only in ending the bourgeois class rule, smas hing the bourgeois state machine by accomplishing anti-capitalist socialist revolution. P eople of this country would have to decide, if they would allow this capitalism to linger on, if they would like to carry this stinking, horrible, decomposed corpse of parliamentary democracy. If they allow it, they will see such grim and sordid happenings more and with days pas sing. But if they dont ac cept it, then this mutilated corpse of capitalism has to be consigned to burial and the new social order, socialism, has to be established. One of these options has to be chosen. Does the danger lie here only? Just think to what low the country has been made to stoop in this capitalist system by the nasty politics and polluted culture pursued by the Congress, TMC, BJP and pseudo-Marxists like CPI (M). Only yesterday in Katwa of Bardhaman district, one brother had to pay with his life while trying to save his two sisters from the miscreants. Such incidents have become a daily affair. The situation has worsened so much that the parents do not dare to allow their daughters to go out of home fea ring if they would return safe from schools and colleges. Husband becomes worried if wife is late in returning from office. He is tormented by the apprehension whether she is safe and secure. Such horrific is the situation. What a country we are living in! Is it the country where once Rammohan, Vidyasagar, Vivekananda, Bankimchandra, Rabindranath, Saratchandra, Nazrul, De shbandhu Chittara njan, Bipin Chandra P al, Subhas Chandra Bose and others were born? Is this the motherland of the legends like Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Jotiba Phule, Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Premchand, Subramaniam Bharati, and others? Is there even any trace of the legacy of these great persons? The youths of the day who are indulging in all kinds of immoral acts were not born with such vices and vile character. Why are they degenerated? Which socio-political ambience is then

lea ding them to this alley? Liquor shops are mushrooming. Drinking wine has become as simple as taking a glas s of water. Civility, decency, honouring the dignity of women all these human values have been thrown to the winds. Who is responsible for polluting the youth, killing everything humane in them? It is the capitalist rule that is solely responsible for this glut of depravity in them. On this Comrade Shibdas Ghosh said in a speech in 1974: a nation going without food, suffering the worst kind of oppression and exploitation, and half-fed and half-clad for days together can also stand up, fight, acquire the power to combat, organize itself and rise up holding its head high, provided its moral strength remains intact and the people have a correct ideology before them. The ruling class in India is engaged in a conspiracy to totally destroy that very moral character of the nation. They are shrewd to the bone; they know that even by extreme oppression and repression, and by keeping starved, a nation or people cannot for long be kept under the boot by police and military alone. The history of oppression and tyranny of the despotic rulers of all ages tells but one thing that no amount of brutal and coerc ive forces of the police and the military can ultimately defend the rule of injustice , or put down the organized power of the people. Peoples power asse rts itself and stands up if the mas ses can keep their moral strength intact and find the correct revolutionary ideology. Greed, avarice and mea nness, which make a man inhuman and spoil fortitude and self-respect in him, are now being encouraged. The cadres of political parties are being engaged in exchange of money to do regular party or union ac tivities and even election work. And all these have been going on in the name of practical politics. The whole of the country teems with millions of unemployed, people are left with no mea ns to fill their empty stomach. Taking advantage of this misery of the people, political parties are using them, providing them with this kind of so-called employment

In this polluted atmosphere, guardians cannot save their children only with pious wishes
Comrade Shibdas Ghosh said this in 1974. Look at the country. Does not this note of warning come
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Bourgeois parties and pseudo-Marxists practising rotten vote-bank politics

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true to the letter and spirit today? What character do the workers of these parties exhibit? There wa s a word swadeshi (patriot) during the British rule. Those who were engaged in a life and death struggle for the countrys free dom were known as swadeshi. The moment the word swadeshi could be heard, people from the villages and towns thronged around the person with deep reverence, as if sa ints and sages had appeared before them. Even the eyes of our illiterate mothers, I noted, would brighten with profound respect at the look of the swadeshis. Kshudiram, BenoyBadal-Dinesh, militia led by Masterda Surya Sen, Pritilata, Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Asfaqulla Khans were known as swadeshis. Paying deep respect to these swa deshi leaders, Saratchandra had written, Patriotism is not a mere word only, it is the noblest mission of human life. On one side is the country, on the other side the patriot; nothing in between. There is no aspiration for name and fame, no desire for post and money. One who can sacrifice life for the sake of the country can only be called a patriot. Such was the standard of politics in those days. Defying all repressions, gallows, bullets and bayonets of British rulers, the flowering youth of Bengal had blossomed raising their head high and roused the entire country. Netaji Subhas Chandra was the glowing embodiment of that fervent revolutionism. Where is that Bengal today? Large se ction of the youth is deeply addicted to liquorgamble-s atta-drug; involved in extortion-robbery-snatching, used to obscene discourse about womens body, indulging in eve-teasing, committing rape and murder of rape victims. Another se ction is engrossed in degree and careerism spree. Who is plunging the youth in the dungeon? None else but ruling capitalism. Capitalism smells danger if the youth possess conscience and human values. So it is arraying its entire arsenal to degenerate the youth, emasculate them from within. That is why, all the elec tion-oriented parties subserving class interest of ruling capitalism are pushing the youth to the abyss of degeneration, turning them into anti-socials, putting them on their pay-rolls and then using them for winning elections and capturing powe r. Given such polluted and vicious atmosphere it is hardly possible for any teacher or

guardian to save their wards no matter how much pious wish they have. To save the youth, to save the women from the sexual assault and violence , it is imperative to have surge of anti-capitalist revolutionary movement, cultivation of revolutionary politics and revolutionary culture.

Where have gone the hundreds of thousands of CPI (M) workers?

All thes e parties have hundreds of thousands of workers. CPI (M) state secretary has recently said that their party has 4 lakh 30 thousand members. They claim to be Marxist; they claim to be leftist. Where have gone those 4 lakh 30 thousand odd members in the face of threat from Trinamool Congress (TMC)? They have all shrunk in fea r. Such is the kind of revolutionaries they are! So brave! When they are in the government, they are great revolutionaries! They have demonstrated such revolution during the 34 years of their rule when they had the police administration and the anti-socials under their control. Now TMC controls police administration and the anti-socials. So the revolutionary heroes of the CPI (M) have slipped into holes. The TMC, one would recall, used to shout against the terror of the CPI (M) during the latters rule; did not dare raising their heads. Today, what great heroes the TMC persons are with police in hand and the CPI (M)-trained anti-socials in their fold! This is the politics of these parties. The anti-socials are the main force of their politics . Please bear in mind that thes e parties do not have any cadre imbued with higher culture, ideology or principles. This cannot happen. Their party workers work for money-license -permit. They want unhindered sc ope of extortion, snatching and robbery. They want that they get a free hand to kidnap, smuggle and rape at their sweet will. Police will not touch them. This gang of anti-socials, in fact, is the main strength of the aforesaid parties in elections. On the one hand, ca pitalism is demolishing human qualities. On the other hand, the parties protecting this ca pitalism are also shattering everything that is humane. Hence liquor dens are sprawling. Freedom movement began with boycott of intoxicants. Those who participated in the picketing before liquor shops faced torture and assault by the British

police. When the CPI (M) during its rule allowed innumerable liquor shops to open, we had protested. Now, after coming to power, the TMC government. has given more licences on the plea of augmenting revenue ea rning by the government. Drink to the brim, get inebriated, behave wantonly, do whatever you want only ca rry the party flag! Hence, the more strength these parties acquire, more are the incidents of rape, kidnapping, evetea sing, robbery, theft, snatching, extortion and all other anti-social activities. This is the reality. So, we hold the view that merely enacting law s or knocking at the door of the police will not save the women. To be hones t, no action on the part of police is noticed these days in containing such crimes and wrongdoings. In fact, the criminals and anti-socials bask in the shelter of those who control the police. Hence the need is the fast development of the anti-ca pitalist revolutionary movement based on higher culture, ethics and morality, the movement which Comrade Shibdas Ghosh long ago had given call for. Without this movement taking a firm root on the soil, we cannot get rid of this menac ing crisis.

Fifteen lakh workers retrenched in a week only

The economy is also in serious crisis. You as sufferers know it very well. P rices of essential commodities are increasing daily; millions are unemployed; villages are almost deserted; rural poor are rushing from this state to that, from this city to that as migrant labours; they are even going out of the country to work as casual or contract labour. Rural life is shattered. This is the scenario. Thousands of factories and companies have closed down; industrial production has plummeted to as low as 1.8 per cent. Production in the core or key industries has gone down to 0.3 per cent. These are the estimates of the government itself. Europe says that it is ec lipsed by reces sion. Indian rulers do not like the word recession, for it sounds bad. So they call it economic slowdown. They want to hide the hard reality by coining new a term. Let me inform you of another fact pertaining to our country. You should know it. Only over the last week, as many as 15 lakh workers have been retrenched 10 lakh in the mining industry and 5 lakh in the gold industry. Just

pause and think. If such has been the figure of just one week, how many lakhs are being thrown out of job in every month, in every year! The budget deficit in our country stands at Rs. 5,20,925 crores (5209 billion) of rupee s. When such precarious is the situation, the government has wa ived loans of the industrialists and doled out a fiscal package to the tune of Rs. 5,70,000 crore to them. Just compare! Whereas the budget deficit is Rs. 5,20,000 crore, the government has deprived the exchequer of Rs. 5,70,000 crore by granting relief to the capitalists in the name of fiscal stimulus. Incredibly, the government after showing so much of kindness and sympathy to the industrial houses is crying that the exchequer is running short of funds. In order to meet the shortfall, the government has opted to slash down subsidies of over Rs. 1,64,824 crore on food, fertilizer, fuel. But the military budget has been raised to as high as Rs. 2,03,632 crore. Education and healthcare are handed over to the private businessmen. On the other, the government has raised an internal loan of Rs.5,69, 000 crore in the current year. Next year, it proposes Rs.6 lakh crore of market borrowing. Foreign debt has mounted to Rs.24 lakh crore. Who will repay it? Undoubtedly the brunt is to be borne by the people. They will have to pay back the loan with interest. So, there will be further hike in the retail price of petrol-diesel-gas, further rise in the prices of es sential items of daily use. You will be startled to know another figure. It is revealed that Rs 75, 00, 000 crore of blac k money, just a fraction of the total in circulation, has been stashed away overseas through dubious means and lying in the personal accounts maintained abroad by Indian industrialists, politicians and bureaucrats for netting further illegal gains. Just think of the amount! Mind boggling indeed! This huge sum of money has been smuggled out overseas and the government is remaining an indulgent onlooker. This is the condition of the country, the spectacle of growth and development so pompously highlighted by the ruling dispensa tion. While the children of A mb a nis -Ta ta s -B ir la s -J ind a ls Goenkas are born in palatial mansions, the progenies of the poor
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Secular humanism denotes non-recognition of any super natural power or entity

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see the light of the earth on tattered rags in the slums or on footpaths. The rich have their brea kfast in five-star hotels, whereas millions of people die of starvation, perish without any medical care, commit suicide being unable to pay back debt. This is the kind of development the country is witnessing. This is the condition of crisis-ridden capitalist economy throughout the world. The traditional imperialist countries are drowning in all-pervasive recession, making desperate attempt to survive by catching a straw. No way can one get rid of this strangulating situation by keeping capitalism intact. That is why, the imperative need is to accomplish anti-ca pitalist socialist revolution everywhere.

BJP is pseudo-Hindutvabadi and Congress is pseudosecular

Only in next few months, another fight is in the offing the parliament elections. On the one side is pseudo-Hindu BJP while on the other side is pseudo-secular Congress. Both sides are ready with all their armies and artilleries, swords and guns. Mud-slinging has already started. The se paratist passion whipped up once again centring the demand for Telangana through bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh has been clearly purported to buttress the most heinous agenda of reaping electoral mileage in the coming parliamentary election based on revised electoral arithmetic. Flame of separa tism has been raked up in Darjeeling, Assam, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Violence has erupted in many places over this demand. Working behind all is nothing else but narrow se ctarian electoral arithmetic. The vote-merchants are splitting the country into pieces only for securing a few more parliamentary seats. Once again slogan of Ram Mandir has been raised by the pseudo-Hindutvabadi San gh Parivar of RSSBJP. I ca ll them hypocrite flaunters of Hindutva. You may ask, why? We are Marxists, we are atheists. We have an altogether different approach and outlook towards religion and religious issues. But looking at the brand of Hindutva of RSSBJP, it raises doubt if Chaitanya, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda were at all Hindus. The historic Babri Masjid was in existence during their lifetime. But none of these Hindu religious lea ders ever asked to

destroy it and build up Rama Mandir in its place. Ramakrishna himself offere d namaz in a mosque near Dakshineswar temple. Was he not a Hindu? I read out to you from Vivekananda in the last mass meeting at Kolkata Maidan on 24t h April to show what his approach was on this question. Condemning those who were committing excess over construction of temples, Vivekananda said, you are constructing Mandir, installing deity, adorning the deities with ornaments, but the real gods, the poor, are dying of starvation on the streets. He asked what was the necessity of knowing whether Krishna was born in Kashi or Mathura, what was necessary, he observed, was the realization of the preaching of the Gita. Was Vivekananda a Hindu? What did the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat say at the rape and death of Nirbhaya in Delhi? When the whole country was aflame in protest against this ghastly incident, Bhagwat commented, since the girls in the city cross the Laksman Rek ha while going out of home, such incidents are bound to occur. It implies, as if, rapes and tortures on women do not take plac e in the villages. Where did the event of Katwa, I referred to earlier, occur? In a city or in a village? Hindutva-vendors of RSS are giving sermons that the women should not venture out of home. Would Vivekananda, if alive, say this, or, he would have asked to lock up the temples and take up cudgels against these Hindutvabadis? He would have protected the Babari Masjid at the cost of his life. That is why I call these Sangh Parivar members as the hypocrite Hindutvabadis. They raise the jingo of Hindutva only for securing votes through artificial polarization on religious line. The Congress too is not secular. What is secularism? The word se cularism came in Europe during the time of bourgeois democratic revolution. Secular humanism denotes non-recognition of any super natural power or entity. In Monarchy, the King was considered the representative of god and his rule as the rule of god. Maxim of god was the key-word in administering the monarchial kingdom. Renaissance came in Europe in course of fight against the monarchial rule. Many bourgeois philosophers including Bac on, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Feuerbach, Didero hammere d against the thought of god. It was the time when came the call of secular

humanism which meant that politics , education and society were to be freed from the tentacles of religion.

Who were the true secular humanists in our country?

Great Vidyasagar was such a secular humanist in our country. You will be surprise d to know what Vidyasagar said. He declared The Vedanta and the Sankhya are false systems of philosophy. There is no truth in it. We teach it under compulsion. To counter its influence, it is necessary to teach scientific philosophy, materialist philosophy of Europe. Only by reading those, people of this country can be freed from the influence of the ideas of the Vedanta. How many of our countrymen know this Vidyasagar? Vidyasagar wrote Bodhoday, a text book for primary students. There was no discussion on god in it. This evoked opposition. The British rulers set up a commission. The chief of that commission John Murdock stated in his report that Vidyasagar was not merely a social reformer, he wa s a rank materialist. He wa s a secularist. He wrote the book to propagate secularism. Vidyasagar was like Saint-Simon or Robert Owe n of Europe. He stood for secularism, gave a call to uphold secularism. Great litterateur Saratchandra was also a secular humanist. Once he said, The ardent devotees to god are handling politics in this country. Those who should have led the lives of sanyasis (monks) have become politicians. That is why, India is so poor in politics . He further said, All the religions are false , nothing but prejudices of the primitive age, there is no greater enemy of humanity has than this. He sa id, Always take up the truth. If that truth proves the Ved as to be false, let it be. The Vedas is no greater than truth. No religious scripture is infallible. The Ved as is a religious scripture, so there is no dearth of lies in it too. This was Saratchandra. They were secular humanists. Subhashchandra sa id, Religion should be completely expunged from politics. Religion should be a personal affair. A man as an individual should have the complete freedom to pursue a religion he likes. But politics should not be guided by religious or meta physica l thoughts. It should be guided only by economic and scientific judgement. Kazi Nazrul Islam, the poet of blazing lyre, also possesse d the same opinion. And

Bhagat Singh himself penned a book titled Why I am an atheist. These great persons were the true secular humanists. They cultivated humanism free from religious influence. I would like to dwell on another point here. Many think that Subhashchandra wa s all along a believer in the Vedanta . It is true that in his early life, he wa s a believer of this philosophy. All of you know that, before he fled abroad by throwing dust in the eyes of the British government, Subhashchandra wa s interned in his own house. Earlier, when he was in jail, he went for a hunger-strike unto death. He thought, like martyr Ja tin Das, his life might also come to an end in course of this indefinite hunger-strike. So before the hungerstrike, he had written two speechesone to the workers of his party and another to the youth and students of the country. In his address to the students and youth of the country, he appealed : On the question of understanding the nature of the visible world, in view of what we have got from science till today, we should keep our mind open. What he meant was that in so far as deriving proper knowledge about this objective world is concerned, we should, in view of what science has revea led so far, keep an open mind and ought not to suffer from blindnes s. Then he said : With further advancement of science, more and more truth is bound to be unravelled. Meanwhile we should keep in mind that our earlier understanding about materialism has become totally obsolete. Scientific studies on the one side, philosophical reasoning-infere nce on the other have shattered that earlier view. That mea ns, his ers twhile view based on opposition to materialism had been defeated by the new scientific discoveries and logic. So, he ca lled upon the students and youth to accept science in quest of truth and shun blind faith in religion. This is the proper approach of the secular humanists.

Present day spate of communalism-casteism in India is the fallout of Gandhijis rel igion based politics
What is the chara cter of secularism of the Congress? Gandhiji was honest in his belief, but he did not believe in secularism. Having been unconsc iously guided by the anti-science and antirevolution bourgeois class thought,
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Comrade Provash Ghoshs speech

Cause of degeneration of CPI (M) lies in its policy-programme

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his call for national unity was based on religion, he talked of national unity through Sarba Dhar ma Samannaya , i.e. through harmonization of all religions. As a consequence, although he sought harmony among all religions, the domination of Hindu religion and more so of the higher caste Hindus remained at the core of the Congress. Bec ause of that, the broader Muslim mas ses kept themselves away from the national freedom movement and from the process of nation building. Even the so-called lower caste Hindus did not join the movement spearheaded by the National Congress. I say socalled beca use we do not consider them as low. The spate of communalism-ca steism that is swa mping India today is the fallout of the religion-based politics of the Congress led by Gandhiji. So when Saratchandra talked of sa nyasis dominating in politics, he meant Gandhiji and lamented about the ignominious condition of politics in the country. And how menac ing that ignominy has become over all these years is distinctly present before our eyes. The Congress leaders of today do not have even an iota of the honesty that Gandhiji had. They are all corrupt, utterly degenerated, totally dishonest. They have only greed for power. The BJP and all other parties also belong to the same genre. The BJPs hands are stained with blood of communal riots. This party is fanning Hindu sentiments to garner Hindu votes. The Congress knows, whatever the situation may be, it would get a portion of the Hindu votes. So, the Congress speaks of se cularism simply to garner Muslim votes, and nothing else. Did not the Congress perpetrate communal riots? Did it not organize communal ca rnage at Rourkela of Odisha in the 1960s, engineer riots at Bhagalpur of Bihar and orchestrate anti-Sikh massa cre in Delhi after assa ssination of Indira Gandhi in 1984? Now they are trying to befriend the Muslim masses, pretending to be their friend and saviour on the eve of elections. The Congress, Mulayam and Mayawati are quarrelling with each other to prove who is the friend of the Muslim mas ses in UP. Caste ist politics , backward caste politics are rampant. Previously there were four castes in Hindu religion. Now those four ca stes have been split into 8 to 10 sub-ca stes. Thes e are all vote bank politics politics of extreme opportunism. One needs to ponder over the deleterious outcome of this

divisiveness of varied nature. People of this country have experienced the Congress rule. They have seen the rule of the BJP as well. They have witnessed CPI (M)-supported United Front rule at the Centre in the late 1990s and the rule of the Congres s-led CPI (M)backed UPA-I. Where are they leading the country to? In fact, they had all worked in servitude of capitalism and are still doing so.

CPI (M)s policy document supports alliance with the national bourgeoisie
Now the question that haunts many is that how could the CPI (M) degenerate so much? It is not correct that the CP I (M) has degraded itself after being saddled in power. Actually, the partys very policy-programmes including characterization of the Indian state as well as formulation of the stage of revolution are flawed. Let me show that. The Indian capitalists have invested $8,000 crore (80 billion) in different countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America. They are buying mines and lands in these countries ; purchasing giant steel plants and other industries in Europe-America. They have invested $1300 crore even in various joint ventures in these countries. What does it connote? It means that the Indian capitalists are exploiting the labour force and raw mate rials of these countries by exporting ca pital. So, as per Leninism, they have acquired imperialist character. A few days back, some of the big industrialists of the country, in reply to a question, boasted that they had provided 1 lakh jobs in America. This mea ns, the Indian industrialists are running industries in America where 1 lakh American labourers have found employment. This is the muscle of the Indian capitalists. When are the Indian capitalists investing such a huge capital overseas ? They are making this investment when India is perilously running with massive fiscal deficit to the tune of Rs.5,28,000 crore. No new industry is set up. Industrial production is rapidly dwindling. In all the countries , whether America or India, interest of ca pital is sovereign. Neither the interest of the country nor that of the people is of any concern to the profit-greedy industrial houses and business tycoons. The state too is subservient to the intere st of sovereign capital. The word freedom here means freedom of unbridled exploitation and plunder. People are the human incarnation of raw materials.

Wherever a scope of profit is se en, capital flights there. When this is the character of the Indian capitalist class, the CPI (M), in its thesis, calls it progressive and finds in it an ally of their Peoples Democra tic Revolution theory. This very Indian ca pitalist class which has already acquired imperialist character is said to be an ally of the working class. According to the CPI (M), the character of the Indian state is of a bourgeois landlord state hea ded by big bourgeoisie. Who else is this big bourgeoisie except the monopolists? And in the words of Lenin, monopoly capitalism is the highest stage of national capitalism. And who are these landlords the CPI (M) talks of in characterization of the Indian state? Are they feudal lords or they are the rural kulaks or rural bourgeoisie? As per the teachings of Marxism-Leninism, a country, if it is in a stage of peoples democratic revolution, will have foreign imperialism and native feudalism as main enemies. Does India belong to that category? Monopoly capitalists and corporate houses have been ruling India. They are exporting capital abroad, and have themselves attained imperialist charac ter. The Indian monopolists have commercial ties with the monopolists of the powerful imperialist-capitalist countries. Not even an iota of anti-imperialism can be found in them. The conflicts they have with the imperialist powers are over share of market. And where is feudalism in India today except in the grave of Nawab Siraj-ud-daula? Actually, under cover of this imaginary theory of revolution, the CPI (M) leaders have established close ties with the ruling Indian national bourgeoisie so as to ride to power or at least hover around the corridors of power with its blessings. Based on this theory, they supported the Congress many a times in the name of resisting communalism. At the sa me time, on the plea of opposing autocracy of Congress, they had sided with the BJP also. Now, they are again going for an understanding with the Congress, not overtly but covertly. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh had long back exposed this inevitable consequence of the CPI (M)s revolution.

committed some mistakes. But do they admit that while in power, they too had unlea shed a reign of terror, captured booths during elections, teamed up with the anti-socials who merrily indulged in extortion and riotoies violence; they did not allow any opposition to contest in college union elections and bagged 99.9% seats uncontested ? Did not their government with a leftist signboard open fire and kill jute mill workers, port workers, protesting peasants in Nandigram, poor farmers in Na dia district? In whose interest did they do all this? Which class did they serve by killing workers and peasants? Was it not in the interest of foreign and native capital? Is this Leftism? Is this Marxism? So I would appeal to the honest workers of the CP I (M) to appreciate that their party has altogether turned into an outfit similar to British Labour Party. Labour in name, but working in the intere st of the British imperialists. We know, in the lower rank of the CP I (M) and among its supporters, there are still some persons who believe in leftism. We rec kon them as friends. They have to decide; if they are genuinely impassioned for Marxism and leftism, the sooner they leave the association of the sham Marxist party, the better. They must seriously ponder over this. The lea dership of the CPI(M) is extremely degenerated, but all the blame is squarely put on the workers, as if the workers had run the party in the last 34 yea rs. Did the leaders admit for once the wrongs they have committed, the immense harm they did to the image of Marxism and leftism? Do they have the guts and character to admit that? As regards funds at their command, the CPI (M) ranks only after the Congress, BJP and Mayawatis BSP. Who has provided them with hundreds of crores of rupees? Is it the peasants and workers? Obviously not. This huge fund comes from the corporate sector, big business houses and the black-marketers. It is thes e forces who run all these parties.

Why all are combined against SUCI(C)

Perhaps you do not know that money has flown in streams in last panchayat elections of the state. Rs.2 to 5 lakh has been spent to win one single village panchayat seat. To capture a particular village panchayat, spending has been to the tune of Rs 6 to 7 crores. All this one can know if one visits the villages. In many places, the TMC did not
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Let the honest workers of CPI (M) ponder over

Let the CPI (M) lea ders say, why their politics has come to such a pass after staying in government for over 34 years? The CPI (M) lea ders now admit that they had

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allow others to contest. Where ver there was a contest, the TMC spent huge amount of money to purchase votes. The CPI (M) also did not lag behind. It did the same thing wherever it could. You will be stunned to hear another fact. The TMC and the CPI (M) are fighting each other in the elections for capturing power. But, wherever SUCI(C) candidates had the possibility of victory, these two parties did not hesitate to combine against SUCI(C). Not to speak of Kultali, Joynagar, even at Jhargram of West Midnapur or a village in Nadia district, where prospects were bright for our candidates to win, the CPI (M) and the TMC got united to defeat us. If the CPI (M) appeared to be our main contestant, the TMC cast their votes in favour of the CPI (M) and vice versa. The sole objective was to prevent SUCI(C) from winning any seat. They want to wipe out SUCI(C) from the arena of elections. This unity forged between them was in the interes t of the bourgeoisie a unity of all who are subserving bourgeois class interest against the working class, the revolutionary party of the working class. They are determined not to allow us to win in the panchayat, assembly or parliament elections. But does our Party stand on the strength of members in assembly, parliament or panchayat? We do not have numbers of panchayat members, MLAs or MPs. Even if we had so, we would not have cited those numbers as our strength, nor as the criterion for the people to rally behind us. Our Party is based on the revolutionary tea chings of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Armed with these tea chings, our Party is growing steadily and would continue to grow. The capitalist class is alarmed at this. The CPI (M) leaders are well aware of this. So are the Congress, BJP and TMC leaderships. This is why, all are united against SUIC(C). At the call of our Party a huge rally of more than 1 lakh people from almost all the states of the country was organized on 14 March last year in Delhi. Discipline of the rally, its thunderous slogans, its every firm step left a deep impression in the minds of the Delhi res idents. They never witnesse d such a vast procession, such an august gathering, such bold slogans, such solemn charac ter of any rally or programme of any other party. Our Delhi Party unit along with De lhi units of AIDSO, AIDYO, AIMSS jumped in the spontaneous movement that surged forth against the barbaric rape and murder of a girl

known now as Nirbhaya. Did we conduct these movements based on the strength of MP, MLA, or panchayat members? From 2 to 4thJanuary this year, we held an allIndia conference of workers coming from all over the country and organized a massive gathering in Bangalore, ca pital of Ka rnataka. From 29 to 31 January, we held a large womens conference in Trivandrum, capital of Kerala. The conference did cast a deep impression on the people of Kerala. Again, from 26 to 29 August, allIndia students conference is going to be held in Bhopal, ca pital of Madhya Pradesh. Recently, a disastrous natural calamity descended on the people of Uttarakhand. It is only our Party that collected relief materials and plunged for relief work there. The medical unit of our Party organized hundreds of medical camps in various parts of the state. Common people and intellectuals there res pectfully have commended our Party for that. Have we been organizing all these movements and social work on our strength in the legislature? How many members did Lenin have in Russian parliament while accomplishing revolution in Russia? Is it not a fact that Bolshevik party led by Lenin had a miniscule representation in Russian parliament (DUMA) then? How many legislators did Mao Zedong have to achieve revolution in China? With how many parliamentarians did Ho Cchi Minh have while conducting successful revolution in Vietnam? Where did they all derive strength from? They all accomplished revolution armed with revolutionary ideology of MarxismLeninism and on the strength of valiant forces of youth imbued with higher culture and morality. It is on this basis our Party is growing and will grow. Those older people who are honest, consc ientious, are all blessing this Party as the only ray of hope. The courageous spirited young boys and girls who have the grit to stand and fight against injustice, those who do not suffer from frustration are joining this Party in numbers imbued with the thoughts of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh started his journey with only six revolutionary compatriots. There was no money, no followers, no publicity. They had lived on the footpath, in the parks. Undivided CPI, RSP, Forward Bloc used to jeer at them by saying If a bat is a bird, then SUCI (C) too is a party. They used to say that SUCI(C) is not a party but a club. Undete rred and unperturbed, Comrade Shibdas

Ghosh, as a great Marxist, struggled with firm determination. Many a day he passed in starvation. We ourselves witnessed this in our early years of Party life. Nowadays, wherever we go, comrades take care of us. The Party has grown. When I sit to take food, memories of those struggling days of Shibdas Ghosh come down my memory lane, give me pain and I ask my conscience could I discharge my role as a student of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh? We want to hand down the great revolutionary tea chings of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh to the present generation.

We vow to carry forward the glorious legacy of the legendary revolutionaries

Never before has India come across such a grave crisis. If Vidyasagar were alive today, what would he have said ? What would have Rabindranath, Saratchandra, Nazrul, Deshbandhu, Lala Lajpat, Tilak or Subhashchandra said? What would have Kshudiram, Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen or Chandrasekhar Azad done? They would have all called for a change of the existing social system. And holding Marxism as the guiding light, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh has laid down the roadmap for ushering in that desired revolutionary change. He showed that as long as capitalism would remain, economic-political-cultural crises would multiply. Capitalism is destroying all se nse of loveaffection -compassion-conscience and all other noble human feelings. The parties serving ca pitalism are surrogates of this rotten degraded culture. More thes e parties are gaining strength, more is the pace of social degeneration. You can see the condition. Aged parents are thrown into the streets by their wards, a son is hacking his father to death for the sake of money, parents are selling off their daughters out of poverty. Husband is handing over newly-wed wife to the traffickers. Flesh trade has assumed alarming proportion. Woman body has become a commodity of a roaring trade. Did our country ever se e all these things in the past? Did Rabindranath, Saratchandra, Premchand see this? Can such things be traced in their works? Is it this free India for which innumerable martyrs gave away their lives? The brave sang the glory of life at the gallows? Is it freedom at all? Now is time to seriously ponder over this. With the tea chings of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh at heart, we shall have to take oath on this day of 5th August

that we shall leave no stone unturned to strengthen the Party more and more, consolidate it further. Spurred on by his invaluable teachings, we shall organize the working class, the poor peasants and agricultural workers, the youth and students, the women to build up powerful sustained democratic mass movements on the burning problems of life. Alongside building up class and mass struggles, we shall ca rry revolutionary politics , higher revolutionary culture to the people. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh had said that we have become rootless. We are estranged from the high cultural tune and standard attained during the days of our freedom movement. This decadent moribund ca pitalism has alienated us from that. It is for this rea son, we observe the memorial days of Vidyasagar, Rabindranath, Saratchandra, Nazrul, Kshudiram, Bhagat Singh, Chandras ekhar, Asfaqullah, Subhashchandra, P ritilata and others. It is only to evoke the forgotten memories of these luminaries, the values of life they upheld. We tell the youth, you have to be like Kshudiram, Bhagat Singh, Pritilata. But, the ideology would be new. Those we re the days of nationalist ideology, ca ll of national unity against imperialism, broadest national unity of the rich and the poor, owners and the workers against imperialism. But after transfer of power, the same national bourgeoisie today is the repressive exploiters. Now our fight is against domestic capitalism. In the fight against capitalism, ideology of nationalism cannot guide us. What is needed today is the revolutionary ideology of the working class, the ideology of Marxism-LeninismShibdas Ghosh Thought. This alone can bring about the desired emancipation. We shall reach out to the people with this mes sage. We shall remember the great men of the past, we shall gather inspiration from the life struggle of the great revolutionaries and on the basis of that we shall develop the movements to arouse nobler feelings and human es sence among the people and elevate their standard further to become proletarian revolutionary on the basis of conce pt of proletarian culture propounded by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. With these words I conclude today. Long Live Revolution ! Long Live SUCI (Communist) ! Long Live Marxism-LeninismShibdas Ghosh Thought ! Red Salute to Comrade Shibdas Ghosh !

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Countrywide observance of 37th Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day

The 37th Memorial Day of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the great Comrade Radhakrishna added which our party is endeavouring to Proletarian leader and the Founder General Secretary of SUCI (C), the that Comrade Shibdas Ghosh had develop. revolutionary Party of India wa s observed on 5 August 2013 by the P arty founded and reared SUCI(C) as the comrades, supporters, sympathisers and vast mas ses of toiling people across revolutionary Party of India to take Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh the country. On that occasion various programmes were organized. A up that leadership. Today in many Memorial meeting wa s held at number of reports of those observances we re published in the last issue of countries of the world people are Gangadas memorial hall, Lucknow, the Proletar ian Era . We include in this issue few remaining reports that attracted towa rds the thoughts of on 8 August. Comrade V. N. Singh, reached us later. Besides as committed, we include here the complete texts Comrade Ghosh. He called upon UP State Secretary, presided over. In of the speeches by Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary of the Party comrades and people to read and re- his presidential address, Comrade V. made in Kolkata, by Comrade Ranjit Dhar, member Polit Bureau delivered rea d, lea rn and re-learn and N. Singh rec alled how Comrade in Ghatshila at the Study Centre of Marxism- Leninism- Shibdas Ghosh assimilate the thoughts of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh through an allThought and by Comrade Asit Bhattacharyya, member Polit Bureau in Ghosh and hasten the process of embracing painstaking struggle and Guwahati, Assam. revolution in our country. overcoming all obstacles built up In keeping with the schedule, the observances started with song on the Comrade K. Sridhar, Andhra SUCI(C) as a genuine communist great leader of the Proletariat Comrade Shibdas Ghosh and ended with the State Secretary, in the course of his party. In his speec h as the main speech, presented a brief analysis of speaker, Comrade Arun Singh, Staff song The Internationale. Guwahati, Assam followers, i.e. to assimilate in our the present political situation in the Member of the Party and senior To commemorate the 37th dea th life the lessons he taught and state of Andhra. member, Bihar State Committee, anniversary of the grea t lea der emulate the noble and arduous lifedwelt upon the present national and international scenarios and showed Comrade Shibdas Ghosh a meeting struggles he conducted, facing all Cuttack, Odisha In Odisha, the memorial how the analyses and prognosis of was held on 5 August in Guwahati odds. Not only did Comrade at Lakshiram Barua Sadan. The Shibdas Ghosh concretized mee ting was held on August 7, at Comrade Shibdas Ghosh are memorial meeting was held at a Marxism-Leninism on the Indian Saheed Bhawan, Cuttack, with vindicated. He pointed out that in time when separatist movement had soil but in the process he Comrade Dhurjati Da s, Secretary, order to disrupt unity of the toiling given rise to an inflammable enriched and elaborate d it to meet Odisha State Committee presiding mas ses, the ruling capitalist class situation while continuous bandh the advanced need of the pres ent over and Comrade Soumen Basu, and its servitor parties are Member, Central Committee and precipitating casteist-communalhad created an extremely difficult days. Wes t Bengal State Secreta ry, ethnic-regional divides, fanning up situation. The mee ting was addressing as the main speaker. separatism-parochialism and even presided over by Comrade Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh In his speech, Comrade Soumen orchestrating fratricidal bloodbath. The 37th Memorial Day of Bhupendra Nath Ka kati , member State Committee of the P arty and Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, was Bose pointed out that since Marxian He warned against the resurgent was addressed by Comrade observed in Hyderabad, Andhra attempt of the Chandralekha Das, Assa m State Pradesh on 11 August 2013 through Sangh Parivar to Secretary. In his pres idential a meeting at the Press Club. cre ate communal speech, Comrade BN Kakati Comrade S Govindara julu, member, frenzy. It is only called for strengthening SUCI (C), state organising committee SUCI(C) the scientific and Comrade K while Comrade Chandralekha Das presided philosophy of called upon people of Assam to Radhakrishna, Member, Central M a r x i s m develop united left and democratic Committee, and Ka rnataka State Leninism-Shibdas movement centring round the basic Secretary addressed the meeting as Ghosh Thought the main speaker. He emphasized problems of peoples life. which can protect Comrade Soum en Basu addressing at Cuttack The main speaker of the that though immediate triggering people from the occasion Comrade Asit points for these movements may be philosophy has sc ience as its rising capitalist onslaught and show Bhattacharyya, member, Polit different, but the root cause for the premise, it has to be upgraded in them path of emancipation. Bureau and noted mass lea der miseries of all these people of compliance with the advancement presented an elaborate address on almost all the countries of the world of science and it was Comrade Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh different relevant issues His speech is capitalism-imperialism. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh the great lea der The 37th Memorial Day of Shibdas Ghosh repeatedly warned who enriched and elaborated it in Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, was will be published in the next issue. that time and again movements will the best possible way in the rec ent observed at Bhopal, Madhya Delhi surge forth out of discontent of days. Comrade Soumen Basu went Pradesh on 9 August 2013 in a In observance of the Memorial people but they will recede too. This on to sa y that todays struggle for mee ting presided over by Comrade Day of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, will happen till a revolutionary the Marxist is to assimilate and Ramavtar Sharma, member State along with other local programmes party with sufficient strength exhaust humanist philosophy and in Organizing Committee, MP. The to observe the occasion, a central emerges. Revolution will have to the proce ss to get rid of private main speaker Comrade Shankar public meeting was held under the wait and the basic problems of the property mental complex. He Dasgupta, Staff member of the auspices of the Delhi Organising people ca nnot be solved till that further asserted that the crisis- Party, and member, Odisha state Committee SUCI(C) at the Hindi time. ridden decadent capitalism- Secretariat, highlighted the imperialism. Hence, significance Bhawan ITO on 7 August. Comrade of observing the capitalists today resort to Memorial Day and the life struggle Pran Sharma, member, Delhi State divisive policies and fan up of the great leader Comrade Organising Committee presided communal passions . So, Shibdas Ghosh. He outlined the over the meeting and Comrade Prata p Samal, Delhi State Secretary Comrade Soumen Basu present crisis the world ca pitalist said, equipped with the system is bogged into today and also spoke at the meeting. Addressing the meeting as the tea chings of Comrade gave call for strengthening the Shibdas Ghosh, based on SUCI(C) main speaker Comrade C K to build up the Marxist ideology, working revolutionary Lukose, Member, Central struggle in the people have to develop country. Comrade Uma Pras ad, Committee and Kerala State democratic movements secretary, SOC, MP also addressed Secretary, pointed out that paying res pect to Comrade Shibdas Ghosh conducive to the the meeting and Comrade JC Barai Comrade K. Radhakrishna addressing revolutionary struggle conducte d the proceedings. has only one meaning for us, his

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Identify with Class, Revolution and Party, go and stay with the masses and release individual initiative to fulfil the task Comrade Shibdas Ghosh has bequeathed to us
Comrade Ranjit Dhar
(This is the abridged version of the speech delivered by Comrade Ranjit imperialist-capitalist countries like Dhar, veteran member of the Polit Bureau of the Party at the 37th Memorial France, Germany, Portugal, Greece Day meeting of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh on 5th August 2013 at Ghatshila, and even UK and the USA. From the Occupy Wall Street movement Jharkhand.) 37 years have rolled by since man, economics of generation of that shook the US imperialist Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, our maximum profit for the handful of rulers, slogans we re raised against lea der, teacher and guide. While capitalist rulers by way of capitalism and demand voiced for observing his Memorial Day, we usurpation of labour powe r of the abolition of capitalism. The people ask ourselves how far have we multitude of working people and of Egypt, Brazil and Turkey are been able to assimilate his division of the society into two conducting heroic battles against invaluable tea chings, apply those classes-exploiting capital and their respective autocratic regimes. tea chings covering all as pects of exploited labour, an insoluble crisis Even in our country, you have seen people spontaneously life and equip ourselves for has gripped capitalist economy. how shouldering the task of Since, politico-social structure and res ponded to the ca ll of fighting accomplishing anti-capitalist culture are superstructures of a corruption by Anna Hazare. Six socialist revolution the task he given capitalist base, crisis has months back, the brave people of bequeathed to us. If you look at or engulfed all these spheres. The Delhi particularly the hundreds of country and for that matter, the ruling capitalist clas s is squarely young boys and girls put up a entire imperialist-capitalist world, passing on the burden of its heroic and historic battle for so you will find people res tive for economic crisis onto the suffering many days braving the biting emancipation from the gruelling people in the form of raising prices winter and defying the batons, tear capitalist exploitation shredding of essential commodities , savage gas, rubber bullets and wa ter them into pieces. Rising fiscal measures, privatizing and cannons of the rulers. But, all these movements are gradually unemployment, job loss, price rise, fizzling out because, the hunger, starvation, outbreak of flame and ferment of famine, absence of proper these sporadic healthca re, withdrawal of one after movements are not another public welfare and social emboldened with the security schemes are shredding correct revolutionary people into pieces . All hard-earned ideology and developed civil and democratic rights as an organized including the right to protest and protracted struggle under dissent and freedom of expression correct revolutionary are snatched away. Rampant lea dership. People are corruption has pervaded the polity rea dy to fight but they and administration. An all-out Comrade Ranjit Dhar addressing, seated beside are not having the right degeneration is devouring the him Comradwe Rabin Samajpati, Secretary, direction to lead their Jharkhand State Organising Committee socio-cultural life. Family life is breaking. Relationships are turning commercializing every area of struggles to logica l culmination sour. Individualism and self-seeking basic needs. So, even the last drop because their struggles are not attitude have assumed menac ing of blood of the toiling masses is developing under correct leftistproportion. Ha nkering after money squeezed out to fill the swelling communist leadership. This is the and nurturing narrow se lf- coffer of the ruling capitalists. And crux of the problem. People are centeredness has become sole les t the people should rise up slowly coming to know, as we saw objective of life. Love, affection, against the obsolete rotten ca pitalist in Occupy Wall Street movement, tender feeling, finer sensibilities are system, the ruling class is trying to that capitalism is their enemy. We fas t disa ppearing. Thinking about break the very moral bac kbone of are the 99% that will no longer others well-being and discharging the nation by perpetrating socio- tolerate the greed and corruption of social obligation have become alien cultural degradation and the 1% this was the slogan. But, propositions. Incessant promotion concentrating all political power in their unders tanding of capitalism, and spread of obscenity, vulgarism its hands. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, capitalist exploitation, the nature of and sex-slavery are stoking up base based on the science of Marxism- various attacks of capitalism is very instincts of the youth to lure them Leninism, has elaborately explained perfunctory. It is the duty of the off to a world of perverse pursuit, all thes e as pects in course of his genuine communists, genuine and, in the end, abort themselves in penetrating analysis of the concrete communist lea dership to educate the morass of animal-existence. In situation of our country as well as and guide them. Where is that one word, it is a spectacle of the entire world in the post-Sec ond lea dership? That leadership can horrific crisis in every walk of life. World War period and provided the grow and develop only on the basis Now, the question is, why this guide to ac tion for those spurred on of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas crisis? Is it clutched out of the thin to bring revolutionary change of the Ghosh Thought. As worthy disciple air or handiwork of all-mighty god? society and there by emancipate the and continuator of Marx-EngelsAs students of Marxism-Leninism- toiling people from the tentacles of Lenin-Stalin-Mao Zedong, Shibdas Ghosh Thought, we know capitalist rule. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh in course that this crisis is of capitalism, of It is true that back to the wa ll, of his historic arduous the capitalist system. Following people are bursting forth in massive revolutionary struggle to fulfil the inexorable law of capitalism which agitations throughout the world historic nece ssity of building up a is based on exploitation of man by including the advanced western correct communist revolutionary party on the Indian soil based on Leninist model, he elaborated, developed, enriched the treasurehouse of Marxian science and brought its understanding to a new height. It is not possible to have a proper grasp of MarxismLeninism today without being acquainted with and as similation of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Thought. You all are aw are that after Second World War, following defeat of fascism at the hands of the Soviet Red Army, one third of the world turning socialist with successful Chinese Revolution, we were virtually on the threshold of world proletarian revolution. Liberation struggles of the exploited mas ses round the globe appeared to be marching towa rds ultimate victory. The communist movement was posing serious challenge to the capitalistsimperialists world over. But then, as pointed out by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, we we re lost in a maze beca use of various wrong practices, theoretical muddles, confusions and trickeries. The insidious growth of revisionism in the leadership of international communist movement turned the bright prospect of world revolution into an agonizing setback. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh while presenting a genesis of modern revisionism showed that weakness of ideological struggles and lower standard of consciousness in the communist movement caused this calamity. It was Comrade Shibdas Ghosh who, way back in 1948, first sounded note of caution against mechanical thought proce ss as against dialectical thought process gripping international communist movement. Blind allegiance and obedience without conducting due ideological struggle and polemics among the various communist parties would lower the standard of lea dership, not developing dialectical process of thinking even within a communist party, would cre ate newer cracks and rifts in the firm solidarity of the communist parties, foster confrontation even warfare among the socialist countries and thus spell danger to international communist movement. History has vindicated the truth of his analysis. Likewise, he later showed how the phenomenon of individualism in this phas e of dying capitalism is obstructing growth and
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Comrade Ranjit Dhars speech

All bourgeois and social democratic parties are pursuing nasty rotten vote-bank politics by adopting every foul means
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development of not only revolutionary working class movement but even democratic mas s movements. It was Comrade Shibdas Ghosh who pointed out that as the phenomenon of individualism and typical individualistic and opportunistic trend among the workers which remained as hangover of bourgeois thought in the realm of mind could not be fought out in socialist Soviet Union, its pernicious effect in the form of a new type of economism and hankering for material incentive obstructed the working people being consc ious of their res ponsibility as cadres of international proletarian revolution, hindered their se nse of obligation to the society and dampened the urge for acquiring higher communist character by complete identification of the self-interest with the cause of revolution and the society. This also helped revisionism to take a firmer root, degenerate the party and the state and ultimately paved way for counter-revolution to triumph and res tore capitalism. So, Comrade Ghosh, till he breathed his last, gave immense importance on ceaseles sly fighting individualism both inside the Party as well as in the society. He taught us that just to want revolution, thinking about the working class is no reflection of revolutionary consciousness. The correct revolutionary consciousness is the correct proletarian class consciousness, and the correct proletarian class consciousness is the correct proletarian party consciousness as the correct proletarian party, in the words of Lenin, is the vanguard, the advanced post of the proletariat, through all the phases of revolutionary class struggle and during the subsequent transition period towards the realization of Socialism, i.e ., the first stage of the communist society. So, rec ognizing the correct communist party, being associated with it and then conducting struggle for identification with the party, class and revolution is the only way one could develop himself as true communist revolutionary and discharge effective role in building peoples movement against the rising capitalist oppression and gradually elevate that movement into struggle for revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

Today the multitude of toiling Indian masses are turning into beggars. Their plight and penury is beyond endurance. On the other hand, the wealth of the monopolists like Tata, Ambani, Birla, Jindal and others are multiplying in geometric progression. Even the latest government survey has admitted that in last two decades, the gap between the rich and poor is widening at rapid pace. Who would fight against this pauperization, deprivations and deceptions? Can the mainstrea m bourgeois parties like the Congress, BJP, SP, BSP or the social democrats like the CPI, CPI (M) fight against the ca pitalist system? How can they because they all are wedded to defe nd the class interest of the ruling bourgeoisie and funded by it. These parties including regional bourgeois outfits like JMM, TMC, DMK or ADMK are all vote-merc hants. Their sole objective is to ride to power or remain afloat in the corridor of power by currying favour with the ruling class and subse rve its class interest. As I had said earlier, the ruling bourgeoisie, suffering from, what Comrade Shibdas Ghosh sa id, fea r complex of anti-ca pitalist revolution, is arraying its entire ars enal to disunite people by fanning up all kinds of divisive policies centring on class, cre ed, religion, region or ethnicity so the oppresse d people are distrac ted from developing class and mass struggles rising above all differences and being driven by common interest. All these parties are acting as surrogates to this vile bourgeois design by indulging in c a s t e ist - c ommuna l- pa roc hia lchauvinistic politics and brighten their electoral prospects by setting up vote banks. The social

democrats have also joined the bandwagon of bourgeois vote politics and hence have not only abandoned the path of movement but even did not hesitate to brutally crush democratic struggle as we have seen in Singur-Na ndigram. The only exce ption is the SUCI(C), founded, reared and steered by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh as the genuine communist party on this soil. This is the party which the ruling ca pitalists could not purchase. You go to any part of the country and you will hear people saying this party is honest, struggling against injustice , trying to develop mas s movements against all anti-people policies of the governments. They all repose immense faith in us. To all of them, we are the only hope, only sparkle in the pervading darkness. It is also a fact that our Party is growing. This is the power of truth. But, though our growth is perceptible throughout the country yet we are not that big to confront the bourgeois state mac hine. We have not been able to develop that strong and extensive organizational base. What is coming in the way? We have in our hand the invincible weapon of Marxism-LeninismShibdas Ghosh Thought. We enjoy res pect, affection, admiration and confidence of the people. Still, where are we lac king? We are lacking in three major are as. First of all, we are not having mass life as is needed of a true revolutionary. Leading mass life means to go to the mas ses, stay with them, lea rn from them, share their woes and joy and in the proce ss become their near and dear ones so much so that they find in us most trusted and dependable friends and empathizers. Once we

Memorial Day at Alipore Central Jail

As in the past, this year too SUCI (C) leaders and cadres who, for their joining or leading mas s movements in West Bengal, have been thrust behind the bars on fabricated ca ses observed Memorial Day of their leader, tea cher and guide Comrade Shibdas Ghosh inside the Alipore Central Ja il in Kolkata on 5 August along with other inmates. Comrade Prafulla Mandal pres ided over the meeting. Comrades rendered the song on Comrade Ghosh to start the meeting; thereafter the leaders garlanded the portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Comrade Probodh Purkait, the main speaker, pointed out that since independence governments have changed through vote, but the capitalist system, the root of all evils of peoples life, is left unscratched. So, the plight and penury of people is soaring. The road to emancipation of people from this capitalist rule and exploitation will be smoothened only by strengthening this Party SUCI (C), which Comrade Shibdas Ghosh has founded as the genuine communist party concretely applying MarxismLeninism on the soil of this country.

are able to develop such fellow fee ling and intimate relationship with them, we shall be able to win over them and gradually bring them in the fold of revolution. Instead, if our mixing with the masses is programme-based which means if we contact the mas ses only when there is a definite programme, carry out propaganda work among them, try to involve them in the programme but lea ve their association once the programme is over and come back among our own comrades, the masses might like us, res pect us, may also support our ca ll for movement but would not accept as one of them, maintain a distance from us. We must lea rn and cultivate this art of lea ding mass life, organize them for conducting protracted movement fea rlessly, braving all odds and rising above all petty self-intere st. Then only we shall be able to build up powerful organizational base conducive to developing revolutionary mass and class struggle. The second area we need to concentrate upon is to acquire true communist character by identifying individual interest with the interest of class and party, as taught by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, through all-embracing uncompromising relentless life struggle. We cannot give any lax to this. Bec ause, if there is any slack in this struggle for identification, we shall not only lag behind in developing ourselves as true communist revolutionaries but also allow the vice s of the rotten bourgeois society to creep in us and if not detected and fought out right at the outset, might even pollute us. Students and youths may thinklet me find a job, build up a career first and be se ttled in life. Thereafter, we shall think of politics and revolution. In other words, they feel scare d of food and shelter, security of life. Those who think so must recall that Bhagat Singh, Netaji Subhas, Kshudiram, Chandras ekhar Azad, Asfaqullah and other legendary chara cters of Indian freedom struggle never thought of their career, individual life, family and other personal gains. They left everything to res pond to the call of their motherland. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh has shown that no revolutionary anywhere has ever died of hunger beca use the people provide them food, shelter ; protect them from all adversities . In his
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Comrade Manik Mukherjee Attended the Programme to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of Historic Victory of the Fatherland Liberation War
On invitation from the Korean Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity a delegation from the International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC) consisting of its P resident, Mr. Ramsay Clark and its General Secreta ry, Comrade Manik Mukherjee visited P yongyang rec ently to take part in the we eklong programme during July 22-28 to celebrate the 60th Annivers ary of the Victory of the Fatherland Liberation War. To recall in brief, the Korean people with a rich and distinctive ancient culture, language and national identity had to suffer from savage Ja panese imperial occupation for 40 years since 1905. Kim Hyong Jik, father of Kim Il Sung, founded in 1917 the Korean National Association, an Anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization, to convert the Antito be followed by the founding of the Korean P eoples Revolutionary Army (KPRA). Kim Il Sung worked in close coordination with the guerilla army led by the Communist Party of China and commanded a division of the united army. AntiJapanese armed struggle was intensified in course of these. On 15th August 1945 Ja pan surrendered and Korea was liberate d. Temporarily as a prelude to the establishment of a free allKorean government through elections supervised by the United Nations, two parts of the country north and south of the 38th parallel came under the control of the Soviet Union and the United States res pectively. Kim Il Sung was the Head of the P rovisional Peoples Committee in the North to run the administration which ultimately lea d to a socialist state, the Democratic Peoples Republic of party or with important personages from South Korea. At his initiative the North-South Joint Statement was signed on July 4, 1972, outlining the basic principles of reunification without foreign interference and reliance on peaceful means. But at the instigation of USA the rea ctionary puppet Government of South Korea spurned these proposals. Rather DPRK has been slanderously labeled by USA as the Axis of Evil. In 1993 Pres ident Kim Il Sung published the 10-point P rogramme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the peaceful reunification of the country. President Kim Il Sungs policies we re reiterated and reinforced by his successor Comrade Kim Jong Il. At least two declarations were made in 2000 and 2007 towards reunifica tion and peace between the two countries. But in 2008 the fas cist regime of and Congress. The celebrations were spectacular, colourful and mas sively participated by happy smiling people including women and children. Those included a Grand International Peace March on July 24, demanding peaceful reunification of Korea along with demands that the USA sign an official peace treaty, end the war, cease all hostility towards DP RK, and withdraw all troops and conventional and nuclear weapons from South Korea. Ramsay Clark and Manik Mukherjee participated in the March. On the same day an International Solidarity Meeting was also held at a site of an important joint ec onomic project of the two Koreas. On July 25, an international meeting denouncing U.S. atrocities in the Korean War was held which was addressed by Ramsey Clark. He spoke about the imperialist aggression of USA against DPRK and a host of other countries and growing peoples res istance against these . He expresse d solidarity of justice- and peace-loving people of the world with the determined struggle of the people of DPRK to protect their fatherland from external aggression. On July 25 Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un inaugurated the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery and War Muse um. On July 26 a National Mass Meeting was held at the May Day Stadium in P yongyang with Supreme Lea der Kim Jong Un as the president and senior officials of the Workers Party of Korea (WP K), the state and the army including Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the P olitical Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme Peoples Assembly also present. On July 26 there was also a massive and spectacular military parade and peoples march. On the review stand at the main Kim Il Sung Square were Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, top leaders of the WPK, and of the State and the Army and the Vice-President of China and other foreign dignitaries. The Vice-Pres ident of the Peoples Assembly invited the delegates to a banquet. Manik Mukherjee had the honour to sit at the Main Table with the dignitaries from DPRK and foreign countries. Manik Mukherjee along with other delegates visited the Mausoleum of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, other gigantic monuments and statues which abound in the city of Pyongyang, and places of sc enic beauty. The delegates returned with an unforgettable memory of the celebrations, of the country and the people.

Ramsay Clark (left) and Manik Mukherjee (3rd from left) at Pyongyang in celebration of victory of liberation war

Japanese National Liberation Struggle to proletarian revolution. In 1926 with the demise of Kim Hyong Jik, Kim Il Sung took up the rein and founded DIU (Down with Imperialism Union) to give a new spurt to the revolutionary movement. In 1929 he wa s arrested by the Chinese reactionary wa rlords at the instigation of the Japanese imperialists. On his release from prison in 1930 at a meeting of the Communist Youth League and the Anti-imperialist Youth League he clarified the principles of the concept of Juche-oriented Korean socialist revolution he had framed in prison, defined the anti-imperialist, antifeudal democratic character of the Korean revolution and outlined its strategic and tac tical issues in a historic Report, The Path of Korean Revolution. He further declared that the revolution should be continued even after the completion of democratic revolution so as to build socialist and communist society and carry forward the world revolution. He laid down the importance of forming a united AntiJapanese National Front and a revolutionary party. In 1930 the first Party organization was formed, soon

Korea under his leadership. But in the South the US occupation forces suppressed the Provisional Peoples committees and in 1948 an anticommunist capitalist dictatorial system was es tablished in South Korea, betraying the aspirations of the national liberation struggle. With their aggressive manoeuvres they even lea d to a war against DPRK in 1950. DPRK retained a dominant position till signing of an Armistice on 27 July, 1953 with a demilitarized zone along the 38th parallel separating the two Koreas. However, no P eace Treaty has yet been signed, which has long been a DPRK demand. DPRK observes 27th July as the day of Victory of the Fatherland Liberation War. While the Russian troops left the North in 1948, US army is even today stationed in South Koream maintaining imperialist hegemony. The great leader Kim Il Sung always advocated anti-imperialist alliance throughout Korea encompassing the revolutionary forces in the north and progressive and patriotic forces in the south. As early as 1971 the great leader Kim Il Sung declared DPRKs readiness to have dialogues with the ruling

Lee Myong Bak came to power in the South with US backing and nullified whatever little progress had been made towards national reunification. North-South tensions heightened. The United States imposed a near-total economic embargo on DP RK in 1950. After the underground nuclear test by DPRK in February 2013, the United States and the South Korean Government threatened retaliatory military action against DPRK and went on with joint military drills. But DPRK under the leadership of Kim Jong Un did not yield to US threats, and South Korea was forced to sit in dialogue with DP RK. With this backdrop DPRK organized an elaborate programme to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Victory of the Fatherland Liberation War. Ramsay Clark, President of IACC and Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of IACC and member, Polit Bureau, SUCI(C) were among foreign delegates and invitees from different countries, which also included the Vice-President of the Peoples Republic of China and an official delegation from India comprising representatives from CPI(M), BJP

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Comrade Ratan Mukherjee did advance much in the struggle of identification with the Party
Comrade Provash Ghosh
(In a scheduled meeting of select Party members at Mahajati Sadan, Kolk ata on 6 th August last, comrades present observed a minutes silence in memory of Comrade Ratan Muk herjee. It set an environment of profound grief whic h deeply mov ed Comrade Prov ash Ghosh, General Secretary of the Party. So, before entering into the main discussion, he, in a brief reminiscence, drew attention of all towards the high rev olutionary stan dard Comrade Ratan Muk herjee had attained through struggle. Since this is very educative f or all comrades, we are publishin g that reminiscence. Responsibility of translation error or inadequ ate expres sion, if any, lies with the Editorial Board of Proletarian Era. ) Shibdas Ghosh in every sphere of life. I have meticulously watched all his qualities with a great expectation. I have never heard him complaining against any comrade for any personal reason. He had come to the leadership with criticism, but that was for having correct understanding and seeking advice about what he should do. P arty had given him more and more res ponsibility. After Comrade Protiva Mukherjee, he wa s in charge of Birbhum district. Thereafter, he wa s assigned responsibility of Bankura district as well. We have to sometimes change and redistribute the responsibilities of looking after the districts. Sometimes, comrades are withdrawn from the responsibilities of a district and given other responsibility. I have noticed that some comrades have happily ac cepted the new res ponsibilities while some others could not. Those who could not, no doubt have obeyed Party decision. But they could not ac cept the dec ision happily either because of such

Comrade Ratan Mukherjee, Member, West Bengal State Secretariat, passed away on 31 July fol lowing a sudden massive cerebral attack. Giving due respect to his revol utionary life struggle, the Central Committee of our Party, in its meeting on 18 August in Kol kata deci ded to confer Staff Membership on him posthumously.

then come back. But Comrade Rata n did not do that. He always tried to get close with the comrades of even the lowest levels. This was his quality. He used to put up with the comrades, tried to know their mind. Towards the end of his The memorial meeting of Comrade Ratan days, he was looking after Murshidabad district. Mukherjee will be held on 13th August where Comrades of that district will bear it out how Comrade Manik Mukherjee would speak. Since more than once he moved around that huge this very mee ting is taking plac e immediately district even upto the village level. Comrades of after the sa d and sudden demise of that district must have felt it from Comrade Ratan, I need to say the core of their heart: what an something about him. All of us have impression he had left there in them. been profoundly shocked at his In the last Lok Sabha election he passing away. The comrade we have was in charge of Gosaba in South 24 lost is among the very few extremely Parganas . Later he was given the valued comrades. I know him from charge of five assembly his childhood. I am acquainted as constituencies and then additionally well as associated with the course of of the Mograhat assembly area of his development as a revolutionary. that district. He toiled day and night The way petals blossom one after to perform his duties. Even on the one from a bud, Comrade Ratan was day he died, he was getting ready for developing in the same manner. His going to Mograhat afte r taking his lea ders, compatriots and comrades lunch. Suddenly death took him must be acquainted with some of his over. Whatever he did he used to do exemplary qualities . I have never it with pleasure. Many comrades heard that right from his early tee ns, certainly do enough work; but there he had ever refused any work Party are often mark of likes and dislikes, had assigned to him by raising hesitation and qualms writ large on questions about any difficulty or their faces. With Comrade Ratan SUCI(C) General Secretary Comrade Provash Ghosh paying floral tribute to inability. Whatever responsibility there was no inkling of these things. departed Comrade Ratan Mukherjee in Kolkata on 1 August was given to him, he not just Rather always his work bore mark of accepted but accepted with a smile. This he attachment to the district he was secretary of or creativity. I never found any trace of ego or pride maintained till he breathed his last. asked to look afte r, or because of his own in him. I must submit it unhesitatingly that never I would draw your attention to another contemplations about that district. It could also did I find him saying I have done this, I have quality of his. His mind was totally open to the be on ac count of a subtle tendency to exerc ise done that, comrades are talking so high about lea dership. He had nothing exclusively authority. But Comrade Ratan had accepted such me. He was closely in touch with me. Comrade personalnot that he shared something with the decisions with ease and happiness. I have noticed Ratan used to look after Birbhum district; later lea dership but held back certain other things. He that. It is our responsibility to see how the Comrade Madan Ghatak became the district was above all this. He was extremely truthful and comrades are tackling such things. We try our secretary. One day I told him jokingly: Madan is plain-speaking. If he had committed any mistake, bes t to see that to the extent possible. We also doing better than you. Instantaneously he replied: no matter whether we were aware of it or not, he notice how the comrades accept such change of You yourself have taught us that if juniors work himself informed us of the sa me and sought res ponsibilities with a view to helping them. I in a better way than their se niors, the seniors guidance as to how he could prevent any have never seen Comrade Ratan sa ying that he should take it happily. All the while he was repetition of any of such mistakes. In one word, would better work under this lea der and would smiling, as he sa id this. He had a profound cult he was grossly engaged in the struggle for not be comfortable in working under another of ideology. He studied minutely. Whenever he applying the teachings of Comrade Shibdas leader. He had the mentality to work under even felt some doubt or had some question, he came Ghosh in every walk of life. At least I have not a comrade junior to him. This is a rare quality. Of down to us, tried to get it clea red. If necessa ry, seen any gap or compromise on his part in this late, he was working very hard, virtually round he was ready to go up to the highest lea dership. regard. Many of our leaders and workers have the the clock, to disc harge two very important It was he, who once raised the question: Comrade habit of taking personal impression or reading. res ponsibilities. Shibdas Ghosh is the concrete expression of our But if he had thought anything about anybody, he Wherever Comrade Ratan went, to whichever collective leadership. Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, used to come to the leadership to ascertain if his district, he could become intimate with the Party the next General Secretary succeeds him. Can we understanding was correct or not. He was workers there . These days, I find a trend with not call him then the next concrete expression of complete ly free from taking personal reading or some state or district leaders: they hold meetings collective leadership? He submitted this question drawing personal impress ion. He always with the members of lower Party bodies or they to the Central Committee. If he had any question Contd. on pae 13 struggled to follow the tea chings of Comrade place their views in a genera l body mee ting and

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Comrade Provash Ghosh on Comrade Ratan Mukherjee

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on any leader s views or if he had found some mistakes or lapses in any leader, he used to come down to us. But when he spoke of those, he placed it with due res pect to the lea der concerned. Be it a leader of the former Central Committee or the present Polit Bureau, if there was any question about anyone of them, Comrade Ratan did not hesitate to place it before appropriate authority. In his younger days, he was rather meek. He got over it strikingly afte r a discussion with me; those who have seen him in later years must have found him vocal. I would add another point here. On any lapse or mistake at his end, I did not have to point it out twice. A single pointer was enough. And whatever he had done or was going to do or would be doing, he checked it from us if he was right or what else should he have done. This is a trait absent in many lea ders of the recent time. They work with an average intelligence and rea ding. Neither do they exchange among themselves, nor come to higher leadership. How will they develop, if there is no contradiction of thinking betwee n them and the higher leadership? Comrade Rata n did not have to be reminded of this. In case he could not come, he would make necessary reports over phone. He used to submit: this was the issue, such was my point, and now I am thinking this wa y. Is it all right? He drove his point in this manner. His wa s an all-embrac ing comprehensive struggle, what could be called a struggle for allout development. His style of talking was rather rough. Some comrades misunderstood it. But that was just his way of talking. Even that he could overcome to a considerable extent. Once he asked me: What do you think ; do I still bea r that way of talking? On the other hand, on ideological issues also, he

maintained se rious and in-depth cult. On organizational affairs too he was showing more and more efficiency. Undeniably he held a very high standard of culture; in what we designate as the struggle for identifying with the Party without having anything personal. In that struggle he was advancing fast. I shall now narrate another incident a rare one. Comrade Ratan was married to Comrade Ira who came from an ordinary family. First, they developed a relationship and then got married. They lived in the Suri Party centre. You are aw are that our centres are not all alike. Outwardly, it might appear that in a Party centre life is very beautiful, with no paleness or problem. This is not exactly so. There occurs conflicts and contradictions amongst the comrades; standards of all comrades, their manners and behaviours are not the sa me also. In such an ambience, we are engaged in the struggle to advance with the teachings of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. His wife came from normal family life. She ca me to stay in the centre with a great expectation and dream; party centre was an ideal place to her. After they began to live there, she was immensely shocked. She herself committed some mistakes too owing to inexperience. Those who criticized her also committed some excess. Sometimes , there were some injustice s also with her. She was hurt. Ira came to me complaining everything occurred in front of Rata nda but Ratanda did not say anything, kept mum. I understood what she was trying to convey. I told Rata n that she was accusing him of inaction. He said, What should I do? Those who are criticizing are all my seniors. Besides, can I say anything in regard to my wife? After a few days, he himself dec ided to take his wife out of ce ntre. Without

even asking us, he shifted her from the centre. His wife went to her parents with their daughter. She fended for herself on tuition, and got her daughter educated too in school. His wife also was a good element. In such case s, generally there are accusations against the spouse. But wife never ca me to Party with any allegation. She is doing the Party work regularly. Her daughter too is a Party worker. Can all this be forgotten? It did not happen at our instruction. Comrade Ratan carried out this struggle for attaining the quality of an able student of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Of late, he sought an appointment with me. Only a few days before his demise, he met me. He confessed to have committed an offence. I asked him what his offence was. He said that he fulfilled all of the ten points barring one of the activities the Party wanted. I have not yet started writing, he said. He promise d to begin that after the Panchayat elections. He said that as he felt it necessary to confess to me, so he did. I granted this and asked him to write not only in Bengali but in English as well. Next, having heard over telephone that I was running tempera ture, he wanted to visit me. I assured him that it wa s a minor indisposition, so he needed not visit me immediately. As soon as I come round, the mee ting would take plac e. He said that he felt refreshed by talking to us. And that meeting of mine with him did take place while I placed floral wreaths on his mortal remains. Whereas he was to have garlanded my dead body, it was me who was garlanding his body (sobbing choked the voice ). I place these words before you. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh is our tea cher, and we all are his students. It is to be learnt how his students at different levels are struggling. This has prompted me to say these words before you.

Comrade Ranjit Dhars speech

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own words, when we started building up the Party there were very few people to support us; we could not even arrange a room as shelter and, day afte r day, in our fierc e battle to build up a new party in the midst of severe obstacles and a completely adverse situation, we had to strive hard even without food, but we had no grievance for all this. For years together we shared a grass-mat only, and so many winters we passed like that. But, gradually people unders tood him, his revolutionary mission of life and extended all possible help and as sistance to enable him to steadfastly pursue his mission. So, if you think of others, others will think of you. We carry thes e tea chings at the innermost recess of our heart. The third area that needs our attention is that we must take individual initiative alongside raising level of our political consciousness. We must not forget that we are revolutionary workers. We cannot just remain confined to routine ac tivities, wait for instructions or be tutored for every act. We must use our brain, use our prudence to creatively disc harge our responsibility with a view to deriving maximum ideological, political and organizational

benefits. But releasing individual initiatives does not mean doing anything in any manner as per ones exclusive likes and dislikes without keeping appropriate Party lea dership informed. Such initiatives ought to be in keeping with the principle of democratic ce ntralism operative within the Party and from the purpose of strengthening collective and body functioning. So, give up self-centric thoughts. Shun individualistic thinking. Dedicate yourselves to uphold the cause of the mas ses, the cause of revolution, the ca use of freeing the society from all exploitation, oppression and repression. Release an allout struggle to ac quire higher proletarian culture, ethics and morality. If we can conduct ourselves in the aforesaid manner, continuously elevate our standard, build up Party organization, spread the thoughts of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh to each and every household of the country, Indian Revolution will not be a far cry. This is what Comrade Shibdas Ghosh wa nted all of us to do to be worthy of calling ourselves MAN. And this is the only way to pay our heart-felt respect to this great revolutionary lea der of world communist movement on his Memorial Day.

National Convention of TUs congratulates workers for February strike and calls for further movement
By unanimously adopting a Declaration from a National Convention held on 6 August, 2013 at Mavlankar Hall, New Delhi, the united platform of 11 Central Trade Union Organizations namely AIUTUC, BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, UTUC, LPF and Independent Federations congratulate d the workers for historic success of the two-day strike of 20-21 February 2013. The Declara tion made it clear that the strikes and struggles during the last three years strengthened and widened the unity of the Indian working clas s. The Convention also conveyed its anger and anxiety at the utter disdain towa rds settling the Ten-Point Charter of Demands (CoD) which contains, inter alia, (1) Minimum Wage not less than of Rs10,000, (2) Universal Social Security Cover for all workers,(3) Assured Pension for the entire working population,(4) same wage and benefits for contract workers as regular workers for same and similar work etc., jointly formulated by the Central Trade Unions, despite categorical assurance. He nce, the Convention called upon the working people of the country for executing the next phase of movement. Comrade R.K. Sharma, Secretariat Member, AIUTUC was in the P residium of the Convention and Comrade Satyawan, Secretariat Member, AIUTUC addressed the Convention supporting the Declaration and stressing on need for prolonged and protracted movement including continuous strike.

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IACC denounces the war threat against Syria

Comrade Manik Mukherjee, General Secr etary, International AntiImp erialist Coordinating Committee (IACC), expre ssing deep concern over the US plan to attack Syria and ignite war has issued the following statement on 29 August 2013 No word is strong enough to most recent examples are Iraq and denounce the sinister move of the Libya. US imperialist to attack Syria in The US invasion on Iraq in order to topple President Assad 2003 was bas ed on reports of government and to bring stooges of weapons of mass destruction and imperialists in power. chemica l and biological weapons. It is now well known that there After the invasion and killing of is no evidence that the Assad hundreds of thousands of Iraqi government carried out the chemical people and destruction of the attack as alleged by the imperialist country it has bee n proved that the powers. Syrian government itself so-called reports were absolutely requested United Na tions to send false and Iraq never had such inspection tea m to prove that Syrian we apons. Government did not use any The US intervention on Libya chemical gas. And now the UN was justified on the claims of mass inspectors are in Syria and the killings, rape, mayhem etc. Now chemical gas was used at a place ten after Gaddafi was overthrown, none miles aw ay from the inspection of the claims proved correct, rather team on the very day they arrived in all are disc redited. Syria. Now the target is Syria. The One of the investigators Carle motive is clear. Actually US and its Del Ponte has stated that the Syrian allies want to establish control over government has not used the the Middle East and to arra nge chemical gas, the rebels have used. profits for the war merc hants of We cannot forget that USAs their countries. Imperialism cannot unprovoked attack and invasion on survive without war and invasion. many countries were completely on IACC calls upon the anti-war false pretexts which we re later peace-loving people of the world to proved as blatant lies and raise their voice against imperialist manufactured propaganda. Two war mongers.

SUCI (C) strongly protests Congress-led UPA governments audacity to state that Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh was no martyr
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the following statement on 17 August, 2013: While the whole country right from the days our country was in ferment of independence movement as well as the freedom-loving people of the whole world bow their heads in heart-felt respect before Shaheede-A zam Bhagat Singh who shook the entire fabric of the nation with valour, earnest and fervent patriotism, whose smiling embrace of epochmaking martyrdom res urged the struggle to free the motherland from foreign imperialist rule to a new height and continues to inspire people in conducting their just struggle against all kinds of oppression and injustice, it is not only highly audacious but unpardonable an ac t on the part of the Congress-led government to state that Bhagat Singh was not a martyr. To the millions of countrymen, this atrocious statement has no meaning and significance at all and hence it deserves to be thrown in the waste paper basket as a trash. It reveals once more beyond doubt how much the ruling Indian national bourgeoisie representing the compromising trend of Indian national independence movement is afraid of and disdainful towards the valiant fighters of the uncompromising trend of Indian freedom struggle, bent upon to obfuscate the glorious legacy of the glowing uncompromising fighting characters of rare mettle like Bhagat Singh and also surreptitiously portraying a distorted picture of our historic freedom movement so that people of the country particularly youth of today remain unacquainted with the tremendous impact, the legends of the blazing age like Shaheed-e-Azam and others had on the patriotic people of the land. The grateful countrymen strongly condemn this most reprehensible and utterly filthy statement of the bourgeois rulers who could dare to betray such a disparaging attitude to those great national heroes standing immortal as the epitome of youthful vigour, indomitable spirit and undying patriotism. We, therefore, call upon the people of the country to rise in revolt against such impudence of the Congres s and all other bourgeois parties possessing similar audacious attitude and outlook to denigrate the great national heroes so brazenly.

AIMSS, Keonjhar demands immediate arrest of culprits of Pagyanparamitas murder

AIMSS, Keonjhar Unit, Odisha, staged a Womens demonstration before Turumunga Police station on 16th August 2013 demanding immediate arrest of culprits of Pagyanpara mitas murder. The main by her husband, mother-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law. Her husband and mother-in-law were arrested but still now police has not arrested the other two accused. So AIMSS demanded

SUCI (C) condemns massacre of people by pro-US Egyptian Army and calls upon Egyptian people to thwart comeback of both Muslim Brotherhood and Army and facilitate restoration of democracy
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the following statement on 19 August, 2013: We strongly condemn the massa cre of hundreds of Egyptian people and inflicting of grievous injury on many more thousands by the USbacked Egyptian Army since 14th August, 2013. It may be recalled that the 41-year long tyrannical and dicta torial rule of Egyptian Army came to an end just a year back when autocratic Hosni Mubarak was forced to relinquish power under pressure of the countrywide spontaneous militant mas s uprising gree ted throughout the world as Arab spring. But now, taking full advantage of the absence of a firm and powerful secular democratic leadership over the ongoing peoples powe rful movement against the oppressive fundamentalist regime of the Muslim Brotherhood under Mohamed Morsi, which has almost assumed the charac ter of a spontaneous peoples uprising, the Egyptian Army is once again making frantic efforts to stage a comeback. While this is clearly intended to halt the onward march of the peoples upsurge against rea ctionary fundamentalist Morsi government and in demand for restoration of democracy, this latest brutal crackdown on the agitating masses is sure to help the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood to bounce back and once again try to grab power which will be inimical to the interest and democratic as piration of the fighting common people there. We, therefore, call upon the progressive democratic minded people of Egypt to close their rank and do everything possible to thwart the sinister attempt of the authoritarian fascist pro-US imperialism Muslim Brotherhood to regain power, seal all the paths of its growth and consolidation and at the sa me time compel the Army to immediately stop this killing spree, res tore democracy and hand over power to the people forthwith. PROVASH GHOSH

culprits both father-in-law and brother-in-law (younger brother of Prgyans husband) have not been arrested still now. It is noted that Prgyan was continuously tortured for more dowry and being murdered

immediate arrest of other two accused and also raise d voice against growing atrocities on women. The Demonstration was laid by Comrade Binapani Das, President AIMSS Odisha state committee. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF :

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